Grok vs Claude, round by round
Claude Fable 5.2 is #1 on LMArena's WebDev leaderboard (November 10, 2026), and Claude Pro includes Claude Code. Grok 4.7 is Grok's flagship model for code, and Grok plans bundle Cursor usage.
Claude paid plans handle up to 1M tokens of context (varies by model), and its prose sounds less generic; Grok 4.7 has a 500K-token context, and the Grok app may summarize very long files or handle them in sections.
Grok searches X posts and the web live; Claude can search the web but has no live view of X.
Grok Imagine generates images and video inside Grok (with a Grok watermark); Claude does not generate images or video.
Claude Opus 5.5 is #3 on LMArena's Text leaderboard (board of November 9, 2026), ahead of Grok 4.7; the top 3 are Gemini 4 Carbon, Gemini 4 Argon and Opus 5.5.
Grok Plus is $8 a month ($80 a year) through The X Subscription, which also bundles Cursor and X benefits; Claude Pro is $20 a month ($17 billed yearly). The API is cheaper too: Grok 4.7 costs $2 and $6 per million input and output tokens against $4 and $20 for Claude Opus 5.5.
Both let consumers opt out of training: Claude in its model-training setting on Free, Pro, Max and Ultra, Grok in Data Controls, plus Private Chat, which deletes chats within 30 days. Neither trains on API data by default, and Claude Team and Enterprise do not train on your content by default.
Pick Grok if
You follow fast-moving news on X, want images and video in the same app, or want the cheapest paid plan.
Pick Claude if
You code, write, work through long documents or need careful reasoning.
Questions buyers ask
Is Grok or Claude better?
Claude is better for coding, writing, long documents and careful reasoning: Claude Fable 5.2 is #1 on LMArena's WebDev leaderboard (November 10, 2026) and Opus 5.5 ranks above Grok 4.7 on LMArena Text (November 9). Grok is better for real-time news and what people are saying on X, for generating images and video, and for price, with paid plans from $8 a month.
Grok vs Claude: which is cheaper?
Grok. Grok through The X Subscription: Free, Plus $8, Premium $30, Super $100 and Ultra $200 a month, and the plans also include Cursor and X benefits. Claude: Free, Pro $20 a month ($17 billed yearly), Max $100 and Ultra $200. On the API, Grok 4.7 is $2 input and $6 output per million tokens; Claude Opus 5.5 is $4 and $20, and Sonnet 5.5 $2 and $10. Checked November 14, 2026 on claude.com/pricing and docs.x.ai.
Grok vs Claude for coding: which is better?
Claude. Claude Fable 5.2 is #1 on LMArena's WebDev leaderboard (November 10, 2026), Opus 5.5 is Anthropic's daily driver for agentic coding, and Claude Pro includes Claude Code. Grok 4.7 is a capable coding model and Grok plans bundle Cursor, but Cursor's Claude and GPT models are billed separately at API prices.
Does Grok or Claude train on my chats?
Both can, and both let you turn it off. Claude lists model training as opt-out on Free, Pro, Max and Ultra, and does not train on Team and Enterprise content by default. Grok has Data Controls in settings and Private Chat, which keeps chats out of your history and deletes them within 30 days. Neither trains on API inputs and outputs by default.
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